• Tanoh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There is a reason clickbait images and titles are used, they work. If they didn’t work, no one would use them.

    • eskimofry@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You must think marketing is made of infallible geniuses. Just because it exists doesn’t make it good.

      • Lumidaub@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Nobody said “good”, but if it keeps existing, it works or at least isn’t harmful. Bit like evolution.

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          1 year ago

          Or there are people with an interest in keeping it that way.

          I don’t think there’s any big conspiracy about YouTube titles, but let’s not pretend thing like wealth inequality still exist because they’re not harmful.

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            1 year ago

            What “interest” would they have to keep it that way if it wasn’t working?

            Wealth inequality exists because it works for the people who have the power to control it. In a way, it’s not harmful ENOUGH to change evolutionarily.

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              1 year ago

              Are you serious? You literally answered your own question with the very next sentence.